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cran
English
Etymology 1
From Goidelic. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Alternative forms
- crane
Noun
cran (plural crans or cran)
- (obsolete) A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has sometimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or 750 herring on average.
- 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, Volume 10, No. 66, page 486:
- Very flattering indeed has been the success of the fishermen; and many boats have come in loaded, averaging thirty or forty crans each (every cran estimated at 1,000 herrings), and disposed of their cargoes at nine shillings per cran; but the price has been since raised to fifteen shillings.
- 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music
- His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.
- 1960, Ewan MacColl, BBC radio ballad Singing the Fishing:
- […] And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
And try your luck at the North Shields Gut
With a catch of a hundred cran.
- […] And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
- 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, Volume 10, No. 66, page 486:
- (obsolete, rare, by extension) A barrel made to hold such a measure.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cran.
Etymology 2
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Noun
cran (plural crans)
- (music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
Anagrams
- Carn, NRCA, cRNA, carn, crna, narc
French
Etymology
Deverbal of créner (“to kern”), from crenedes (“notched”), from Vulgar Latin *crinare, probably of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *krini-, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate”). Or, less likely, from Latin cern? (“I separate”), itself from the same root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k???/
Noun
cran m (plural crans)
- notch
- (firearms) safety catch
- (belt) hole
- (hair) wave
- (colloquial) guts, bottle, courage
Derived terms
- cran d'arrêt
- être à cran
References
Further reading
- “cran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kran?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kr?n/
Noun
cran m
- crane (bird)
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: crane, krane, cranne, craane, crone, craune
- English: crane (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: cran
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kran
English
Noun
kran (plural krans)
- Alternative form of qiran
Anagrams
- ARNK, Karn, karn, knar, nark, rank
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From German Kran.
Noun
kran
- crane (lifting device)
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German kran, from krane (“crane (bird)”).
Noun
kran c (singular definite kranen, plural indefinite kraner)
- (machine) crane
Derived terms
References
- “kran” in Den Danske Ordbog
Kabuverdianu
Adjective
kran
- dry
- plain
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German kran
Noun
kran f or m (definite singular krana or kranen, indefinite plural kraner, definite plural kranene)
- a crane (lifting device)
- a tap, or faucet (US) (device to dispense liquid)
Derived terms
- kranfartøy
- stoppekran
- tårnkran
- utekran
References
- “kran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German kran
Noun
kran f (definite singular krana, indefinite plural kraner, definite plural kranene)
- a crane (lifting device)
- a tap, or faucet (US) (device to dispense liquid)
Derived terms
- kranfartøy
- stoppekran
- utekran
References
- “kran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Russian ???? (kran), from Dutch kraan, from Middle Dutch cr?ne, from Old Dutch *crano, from Proto-West Germanic *kran?, from Proto-Germanic *kranô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kran/
Noun
kran m inan
- tap (US: faucet)
Declension
See also
- kurek m
Further reading
- kran in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- kran in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Kran
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krâ?n/
- Rhymes: -â?n
Noun
kr?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- crane
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kr??n/
Noun
kran c
- crane (machinery)
- water tap, knob for controlling a valve
- (colloquial) (big) nose of a human
- (colloquial) drug supplier
Declension
Descendants
- ? Finnish: kraana
Anagrams
- rank
Volapük
Noun
kran (nominative plural krans)
- skull
Declension
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